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The average rating for England away based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.has a rating of 4 stars

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-29 00:00:00
0was given a rating of 4 stars Cherise Gilmer
With his ‘Football Factory’ trilogy, John King provides us with an unflinching and uncompromising, yet compelling look at the dark world of football related gang violence of Britain in the 1990’s. King neither condones, condemns nor judges the perpetrators, but merely tells is like it is – or at least certainly was at that time. The stories he has created are bleak and brutal; the violence is often shocking, frightening, repulsive and at times unrelenting. Although this is fiction it all too often feels very authentic, it all feels very real. The ‘Football Factory’ trilogy (‘The Football Factory, Headhunters and England Away’) is consistently well written and convincing throughout. Despite the scale and nature of the violence portrayed, King somehow manages to avoid being gratuitous. Neither does it feel like King is glorifying the culture of violence he is writing about. These books are about tribalism, about the working classes of Britain in the 1990’s, about an ingrained culture of alcohol fueled violence as part of everyday life. Whilst Football is at the centre of all three novels and central to the lives of the main protagonists – ultimately (and paradoxically) it’s almost incidental to the main themes explored here. Violent, uncompromising and bleak – but equally thought-provoking, compelling and intelligent. This is not merely yet another story of hard men, living hard lives and doing violent things.
Review # 2 was written on 2012-09-14 00:00:00
0was given a rating of 4 stars Josh Labass
Uno stile incredibilmente intenso e un linguaggio vietato ai minori pungente e realistico. Il tutto velato di leggera ma percettibile malinconia e punteggiato di momenti comico-grotteschi davvero improbabili. E' il terzo libro della trilogia del calcio di J. K. Molti personaggi sono giá noti. Qui i nostri eroi partono alla volta di Berlino. Si gioca Gemania -Inghilterra. Il coro che unisce la truppa è "due guerre mondiali e una coppa del mondo", tanto per mettere in chiaro le cose. Non vengono in pace, i ragazzi. C'è chi la vive come un seguito della seconda guerra mondiale (di cui per altro ha una conoscenza abbastanza approssimativa e inesatta) e una questione d'onore, chi come una vacanza e un'occasione per allontanarsi da Londra per poterne sentire poi la mancanza e mitigare la nostalgia in compagnia di qualche bellezza continentale. scorrono fiuni di birra e cresce la voglia di menare le mani. Nello stesso momento , in patria rimangono quelli che le guerre le hanno combattute per davvero. Guerre vecchie come il secondo conflitto mondiale o piú recenti come la guerra del golfo. Motivazioni e ideali diversi. Tutti , ma proprio tutti, cercano sollievo e salvezza in una buona bevuta e una ghignata con qualche amico. Non tutti la trovano, a volte i fantasmi sono troppo forti.


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